3 Types of Meetings Best Suited to Off-Site Locations
3 Types of Meetings Best Suited to Off-Site Locations
Posted on April 01, 2022
Running a business requires meetings on a daily basis. With Zoom and Microsoft Teams becoming more and more common for hosting team meetings, you may be asking yourself how can you get your team together in person and break away from the day-to-day norms. Here are 3 types of meetings best suited to off-site locations for you and your team to destress and refocus.
Decision-Making Meetings
A collaborative and goal-orientated meeting, decision-making meetings are usually led by a team leader and called when a group decision needs to be made. This type of meeting can be stressful and intense, which means it often relies on the delegate’s complete attention.
This is why we believe that this type of meeting is best held off-site. If you are working hard to come to a decision, it is nice to know that after the meeting you and your workmates will be able to escape the stress and enjoy what your location has to offer. Delegates will find that they are more inclined to put in a harder and longer period of time focussing on the issue at hand in the meeting if they know that they will be able to blow off some steam with a hike in nature or a spa day once the meeting is finished.
Team Building Meetings
A fun and productive meeting that focuses purely on your team and their happiness. By improving how employees work together you are guaranteed to increase work productivity.
As more and more employees are working from home remotely, it is nice to get your team to reconnect in person. A team-building meeting encourages team members to interact with each other and build new relationships. We recommend booking experiences such as snowmobiling, ATV adventures, escape rooms or even team challenges for your employees to bond over. Of course, this is all much easier off-site in a location where these activities are much easier to do.
Yearly Planning Meetings
When you are organizing the department heads to gather and set the goals for the financial year, it is important that a company’s yearly planning meeting is extremely productive.
Similar to the decision-making meeting, the yearly planning meeting can be high stress, however, the participants are well prepared for the content and discussion. When you are organizing a large meeting like this, depending on the company’s size and locations, you will be organizing members travelling across Canada and internationally.
Logistically, this can be made easier to plan by planning an off-site meeting. A location that is close to an international airport and easy to organize private transport to and from is ideal. Having a desirable location such as Whistler will also encourage and incentivize those travelling a long distance to make the effort to travel.
In our professional opinion, you can make most meetings an off-site meeting. At the Crystal Lodge, we have seen every type of corporate get together from creative design retreats to union meetings and more.
If you are ever in need of some assistance on how to plan a Whistler corporate getaway or you are looking for ideas on how to get your team back together, you can contact our Group Sales Team at sales@crystal-lodge.com or 1.800.667.3363.